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Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 21, 2025

Photoshop v26.7 is now available

  • May 21, 2025
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We're happy to announce the release of Photoshop v26.7

 

What's new in this update? 

 

The latest release of Photoshop (v26.7) includes several performance enhancements and fixes for customer-reported issues. Notable Fixes in this release:

 

 

For details on issues resolved in earlier versions, check out the Fixed issues page.

 

Update now to experience these improvements and elevate your creativity!

 

Update the App

Try out the latest Features and Enhancements in Photoshop.

To update Photoshop to v26.7, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating.
 
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    15 replies

    Participant
    July 18, 2025

    I'M taking the Photoshop AI Masterclass with Kristina @ SharkPixels. She instructed us to download the new public Beta version called Northern Lights. When I checked in my Creative Cloud, it didn't look the same as her screen. I found the newest version 26.8.1 but cant confirm its the one she instructed us to find. Can anyone confirm this please. Thanks! Mark

    Legend
    July 18, 2025

    MA, Kristina would have been more helpful if she had mentioned the Beta's version number.

    The current version is 26.9. I see no trace of "Northern Lights." I did search the web and Creative Cloud before saying that.

    I think you'll get faster/better answers creating your own post in the Beta forum rather than tack at the bottom of a released Photoshop version's exchanges.

     

    Larry
    Gasconman
    Participating Frequently
    July 15, 2025

    I have an annual Photography Plan (prepaid) since 2013 which is due for renewal on 24th December 2025. I've just realised that Photoshop has disappeared from my installed apps in Creative Cloud. Photoshop (Beta) is listed there but Photoshop 2025 is not, it just shows as available to install. The Photoshop 2025 version which is installed on my PC shows as 26.4.0

    Gasconman
    Participating Frequently
    July 15, 2025

    UPDATE:
    I clicked the link provided on this page and Photoshop 2025 was newly installed on my PC, completely overwriting the previous version and destroying all my preferences. AArgh!

    Known Participant
    June 4, 2025

    What's worse, Xenohart, is that Adobe doesn't ban the spam bots after they've been flagged by users, and they don't remove their garbage. Adobe just removes the spam link, but leaves the spam and the spammer. It's totally cringe. 


    100%. That is just sad. Further on in this thread, I walked through one of their "tutorials" and took screenshots to show just how flawed and misleading it was. An absolute abomination. Ridiculous. For AI - I wouldn't pay Adobe a cent. I'm waiting for someone smarter than me to use AI to build a full replacement suite to Adobe and I know several groups working on it. Don't know how long that will take - but if they don't understand that their size and the money has gone to their heads, unfortunately, they'll learn the hard way when everyone can just up and go.

    bellevue scott
    Inspiring
    June 4, 2025

    Thank you. It's the weirdest thing to be thanking themselves. What?? This is almost as bad as when they pay influeners on tiktok and youtube. It's just so cringe. I can't even figure out the purpose?? This is a board for people to go if we're having issues... nobody comes here to tell adobe how amazing they are. Although... sadly... I can see these "people" thinking that really happens....


    What's worse, Xenohart, is that Adobe doesn't ban the spam bots after they've been flagged by users, and they don't remove their garbage. Adobe just removes the spam link, but leaves the spam and the spammer. It's totally cringe. 

    Known Participant
    June 3, 2025

    What is with all the spam in the Adobe forums? This comment is spam with a clickbait link. This is at least the sixth one I've fladed in this thread. My God Adobe, get a grip on the spam bots! 


    Thank you. It's the weirdest thing to be thanking themselves. What?? This is almost as bad as when they pay influeners on tiktok and youtube. It's just so cringe. I can't even figure out the purpose?? This is a board for people to go if we're having issues... nobody comes here to tell adobe how amazing they are. Although... sadly... I can see these "people" thinking that really happens....

    Known Participant
    June 3, 2025

    Latest updates and fixes? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wow, if you all spent half as much money on programming as you do PR, Adobe's AI might actually be worth while. So, let's focus on your updates: Generative Expand: works IF you use the crop tool IF you use the canvas expand tool ... but just using it to generatively expand a picture for which maybe there were white borders - nope. That's useless. The AI remove tool - neat, I removed a bridge. Not neat, instead of a new layer, it just overwrites the picture, changes what was behind it dramatically, not just filling in the spots, and becomes useless. I'm better to do it by hand. The frame tool.... just... nothing to say to this as a "tool". Generate Similar? Sure - I can select a sky, some clouds, and ask it to generate birds. And, you know what, it's not bad ... not great, but not bad. However, my entire sky has to be regenerated because AI still can't use the LAYER feature for some reason - so all the cloud reflections in the water below are, wrong. How do you keep missing this? How can you not create a transparent background layer to plug an image into for some of these? Generate background: is 100% dependent on adobe ai picking the subject and at this stage... good luck with that! HAHAHA - I even used your tutorial - and it's not good.. at all. So, this is also a useless tool. (And even if I was missing something - I shouldn't have to sit through hours of youtube videos to try and figure out how to use just 1 of your automated features). Change colors seems to work okay - so long as I can select specifically what I need to have changed and forgot how to use the menu functions. Just sayin'.... do you have anyone at your company that USES this software ... like at all ... ever?

    Known Participant
    June 3, 2025

    Just so that you don't dismiss me as merely "whining" about how bad this most recent roll-out was - I'm just gonna use YOUR tutorial to demonstrate it. You're not creating a tool for artists - you're adding a toy for people who just want to swap in quick backgrounds for play, which would be fine - except you are doing a very poor job at even that. Additionally, artists are paying good money and you keep making promises that the slow-downs, breaks, constant updates, and problems are because you're expanding what's available to us (to either justify the cost, finally, or raise it on us... who knows at this point). However, look at bgissue2.jpg. I started YOUR tuorial, let it load the picture, and then followed the instructions: Remove background. And, it did. Photoshop AI chose the subject (good luck choosing the subject on ANYTHING with ANY complexity - that's totally useless, I've tried on 2 dozen other pictures with terrible outcomes), and it cut off part of the bottle in YOUR tutorial. That's funny. So, look at bgissue1.jpg (sorry about the poor quality of the images / fuzziness, but resizing in photoshop is really, really bad still. I mean - you could've spent all this time using ai to treat rasterized images like vectors and allow for resizing, but... you didn't, so the quality just continues to be terrible and it makes your whole "combining photos" thing you keep trying to push... not really feasible. But, that's also just more evidence of how bad the company's prioritization is). Sorry, getting back to bgissue1.jpg, while it's understandable that somehow AI can't create the same image twice to look like your tutorial (or... it's supposed to be understandable?), unlike your video prompt, it created shadows to the shadows of the bottle. That sucked. On the top picture, it created the background as two pieces of paper and added shadow to the line? It didn't even bother on the bottom photo to add shadow around the flowers on the right. (Oh, and I had to widen the canvas manually because the picture you include does not match the picture in the video, but that's okay, if you didn't care enough to get the software right and you're cheating the prompting, there's no real point in taking the time to get the full instructions right). Now we look at bgissue3.jpg. So, your prompting in the video was clearly, not honest by the comparitive outcome being so vastly different from the generated pictures to the video output. Hey, maybe misleading people to get subscriptions pays off, I don't know? Of course, since AI prompting is something I have to do for part of my living, bgissue3.jpg will show you the outcome of my work, much closer to the tutorial you provided and some of the extended prompting I had to apply. I didn't refine it further because there was no need, I demonstrated what I was claiming above about this continued "ai" roll-out being problematic and poor quality. Those of us who do AI prompting are accustomed to the requirement of added descriptions and some specificity (and about 500 iterations), so it's not a big deal. But, from your photoshop AI "subject selection" cutting off your own bottle, to the prompting not matching the output and the horrible errors occurring repeatedly, your "generate background" feature, just like the others I critiqued above, is seriously lacking in functionality and you're just pushing for more and more subscribers without being completely forthcoming about your AI: it's restrictions, limitations, or functionality. So, all these other fake "bot" responses in here, "oh, this was so easy and so much fun and wonderful" .... are SO bad... no one could EVEN follow your tutorials and get anything of quality or close. I don't know if you're using AI to generate the fake responses - but this is truly the lowest end treatment of customers from a billion dollar corporation making hundreds of millions per month on the profit side. Good luck with your next update! (final note-  you'll see that I circled the right hand side of the sprayer in the top picture of bgissue1.jpg... that's because the flowers would generate a reflection. We could easily add that ourselves, but it's one more weakness of the system you've created.)

    bellevue scott
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2025

    What is with all the spam in the Adobe forums? This comment is spam with a clickbait link. This is at least the sixth one I've fladed in this thread. My God Adobe, get a grip on the spam bots! 

    Participant
    June 2, 2025

    Loving the latest Photoshop v26.7 update!  The performance improvements are noticeable, and it's great to see customer-reported issues being addressed especially the hue range and filename bug fixes. Just tried editing with the Bella Casa shade from bellacasashade.com, and it looks incredible with the new update. Great work, team! 

    Participant
    May 30, 2025

    Zou graag de lichtstraal uit de foto willen verwijderen, lukt mij helaas niet.

    bellevue scott
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2025

    You will probably gret a better answer if you start a new topic with this question. This thread is about the latest Adobe updated and is probably not the best place for this question as it doesn't really fit here. Others can perhaps help you understand how to remove the beam of light if you post your question in the help forums as its own topic. 

    Participant
    May 30, 2025

    Bedankt

    bellevue scott
    Inspiring
    May 29, 2025

    I feel like this thread and the forums in particular need much better moderation. First link was incorrect to begin with. Then three of the comments for which I got email notifications were clearly spam from bots adding click bait. The spam bots have taken over.